daydream

i finished reading six volumes of VULGAR GHOST DAYDREAMS. weird shit, but misaki is hot. i guess S&M can be quite fun, especially when you have a cute necromancer in leather bondage strap whipping your ass. yes mistress, i submit. oh oh whip me harder. harder. yes, i've been a bad bad horse. whip me hard and ride me.

..........

i am drunk and therefore excused to say stupid things.

speaking of drunkness, i had a conversation with a drunk man today who is in the geophysics program outside the dorms, and only after i got back to my room i remembered that i forgot to ask his name. fun guy to talk to. i think definitely the type of guy kristin would like. he simply told me to get as wasted as possible on my 21st birthday, because that should be one birthday that you will want to remember for the rest of your life as the one birthday that you have no recollection about. it's an illogic, but that's what appeals to me anyway. logic is overrated.

"... arthur reached out for the bedside light, not expecting it to come on. to his surprise it did. this appealed to arthur's sense of logic. since the electricity board had cut him off without fail every time he paid his bill, it seemed only reasonable that they should leave him connected when he hadn't. sending them money obviously only drew attention to himself."

i must have gotten way too excited from reading about S&M and ghost exorcism that the second i turned my head to the right, the sun is already up behind a building across the river. it is now 0604 AM and i am still wide awake. damn that venti coffee. first thought was OH SHIT I NEED TO GO SLEEP, but precisely three seconds later i was enlightened and thought AH DANGIT IT'S POINTLESS ANYWAY AT THIS POINT, hence this entry. i should walk over to starbucks and get another venti and dehidrate myself even more.

bobby gave me a copy of top physics PhD schools ranked by USNews. list goes like this:

1. caltech
2. MIT
3. harvard
4. princeton
5. stanford
6. berkeley
7. cornell
8. university of chicago
9. university of illinois - urbana
10. columbia
11. UCSB
12. yale
13. university of maryland
14. university of michigan
15. university of texas
16. UCLA
17. UCSD
18. university of washington
19. university of wisconsin - boulder
20. john hopkins university

thought to self: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14, 17, 18, 19. shit. that's eleven universities already. that means $1000 worth of application fee, and not even a guarantee of acceptance.

so i scrolled down quickly to the bottom of the list.

yes, sucks for you universities who are in the middle. you never even get a glance because people only look at the dream universities and backup universities. so if you (a university) want to attract more graduate students, trust me, going down the rank is much much easier than going up.

88. university of kentucky
87. university of hawaii - manoa
86. tufts university
85. SUNY - buffalo
84. oregon state
83. university of new mexico
82. university of kansas
81. university of houston
80. university of delaware
79. university of connecticut
78. darthmouth
77. colorado state
76. university of nebraska - lincoln
75. university of illinios - chicago
74. university of georgia
73. northeastern university
72. lousiana state
71. kansas state
70. college of william and mary
69. virginia tech
68. university of utah

first thing that i found funny was the fact that the number 69 is related to the word "virgin" and "tech." sexy.

then i realized that i have to pick a few from these for backups. hawaii sounds interesting. that'd be a perfect place for a slacker like me. plus i don't mind watching luau dance everyday. virginia tech interests me only because it's ranked 69. that's always a fun number. new mexico probably wouldn't a bad place either. there's a much bigger probability there for the guy sitting next to you at the bar to be a nobel laureate than anywhere else in the world. not that they're that interesting to talk to, but i bet it's amusing to see what they can do when they've had a pitcher too much.

where is university of minnesota? they're not on the list until bobby pointed out how blind i was. they're #26. right above penn state and below rutgers.

couple pages after that, comes a list of top 19 university in elementary particle physics. the list goes:

1. stanford
2. MIT
3. caltech
4. berkeley
5. princeton
6. harvard
7. university of chicago
8. SUNY - stony brook
9. university of washington
10. cornell
11. columbia
12. michigan state
13. university of illinois - urbana
14. university of michigan - ann arbor
15. UCSB
16. university of texas
17. indiana university
18. yale
19. university of wisconsin

interesting. what is this SUNY thing anyway? state university of new york? *googles* shit, i guessed right. i guess i do have a common sense. mom has an old friend who's a chemistry faculty member at either michigan state or university of michigan. i should look into those as well. connections are usually a good thing to have, but i guess the effects will diminish exponentially when they're in a different department. columbia sounds cool, where the hell is it?

oh. i just remembered that i don't buy ratings anyway. the more nobel laureates you have, the higher your rank is, but the more prizes a physicist gets, the more of an asshole he tends to be. here's an advice: stick with the assistant professors. they're cool because they haven't gotten enough prizes to be able to act like assholes. so when the assstant professor you're working with gets a prize, dump him and find a new guy.

i was at starbucks yesterday night, and i remembered that i had made a promise to a friend, who is now gone forever, that i'd do her a fanservice. nadia, this one is for you. i know you're not coming back, ever, but it was real fun when you were around and i thank you much for that. other zoro fans please enjoy.